A family name on East 58th Avenue, Sunset
The Findlays
In the city directories 1940 · four people at one address
The directories print four people named Findlay at one address, 1059 East 58th Avenue in Sunset, in 1940. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Findlay name's own page.
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The Findlays at home
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1059 East 58th Avenue
Sunset, 1940
- W A Findlay, a mechanic 1940
- Dorothy Findlay, an operator at the Jantzen Knit Mills 1940
- James J Findlay 1940
- Lawrence A Findlay, a millworker at BC Plywoods 1940
Next door in 1940: A T Trotman at 1037 and H C MacDonald at 1077. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the four: a mechanic, a millworker and an operator.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Sunset. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
In 1940 the directory lists W A Findlay at 1059 East 58th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists William A Findlay there as the householder, a mechanic, with Dorothy Findlay, an operator at the Jantzen Knit Mills, James J Findlay, and Lawrence A Findlay, a millworker at BC Plywoods.
Today
1059 East 58th (1999) has a newer building, by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- *Findlay W A1059 East 58th, p. 269
- Findlay Dorothy opr Jantzen Knit Mills1059 East 58th, p. 196
- Findlay Jas J1059 East 58th, p. 196
- Findlay Lawrence A mlwkr BC Plywoods1059 East 58th, p. 197
- Findlay Wm A mech1059 East 58th, p. 197
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Findlays
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Findlay name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under F. Want a name removed? Tell us.